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Forestry Services, Inc.

Central piedmont across the coastal plain · 47 counties

About Forestry Services, Inc.

R.B. Klass Forestry Services, based in Cary, North Carolina, is listed as a forestry consultant and also as a timberland broker. The work on offer covers forest management plans and mapping, reforestation, timber stand improvement, timber appraisal, timber cruise and volume estimates, timber sale and contract administration, logging engineering, forest real estate, forest taxation, and utilization and marketing. Its own pages describe building land management plans, "usually covering 10 years or more," based on an analysis of timber stands and what the landowner wants. It works in pine and hardwood, and also pine straw. Thinning work ranges from pre-commercial thinning in young pine stands to commercial pulpwood thinning, crop tree release, and commercial improvement cuts in hardwood and mixed stands, with trees marked by hand depending on the age, size, and stocking of each stand. Reforestation work includes site preparation, seedling selection, and cost share paperwork, and it says it searches out "the best genetically improved seedlings on a tract-by-tract objective basis." It also offers Tree Farm certification, prescribed burning, wildlife habitat work, and hunting lease negotiation. It serves Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Warren, Wayne, and Wilson counties. It holds an N.C. Registered Forester credential (provisional), #472, and has been "helping landowners reach their goals since 1983." The smallest job shown on its pages is the Linden Tract on the Lower Little River, a roughly 306 acre property, which gives a sense of the scale it has handled. This suits a landowner with a larger timber tract who wants a full management plan built around it, not just a quick one-off sale. From ncforester.com, read 10 October 2026.

Can they handle a timber sale?

Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.

works out what your standing timber is worth

measures and grades what's actually out there

runs the sale and handles the contract

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Counties covered

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Moore, Caswell, Nash, Wilson, Cumberland, Randolph, Warren, Wayne, Guilford, Hoke, Sampson, Montgomery, Greene, Edgecombe, Duplin, Richmond, Lenoir, Halifax, Scotland, Bladen, Pitt, Northampton, Jones, Martin, Pender, Bertie, Onslow, Craven, Hertford, Gates, Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck

Forestry Services, Inc.

N.C. Registered Forester #610
N.C. Registered Forester (provisional) #472
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Registered foresters

Michael J. Perry#610
Richard B. Klass · provisional#472

Member of

Association of Consulting Foresters

Society of American Foresters